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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: went such agonies and frenzies, what must Teufelsdrockh's have been, with a fire-heart, and for a nonpareil Blumine We glance merely at the final scene: ' One morning, he found his Morning-star all dimmed 5 ' and dusky-red; the fair creature was silent, absent, she ' seemed to have been weeping. Alas, no longer a Morn- ' ing-star, but a troublous skyey Portent, announcing that ' the Doomsday had dawned She said, in a tremulous ' voice, They were to meet no more.' The thunderstruck 10 Air-sailor is not wanting to himself in this dread hour: but what avails it? We omit the passionate expostulations, entreaties, indignations, since all was vain, and not even an explanation was conceded him; and hasten to the catastrophe. 'Farewell, then, Madam said he, 15 'not without sternness, for his stung pride helped him. ' She put her hand in his, she- looked in his face, tears ' started to her eyes: in wild audacity he clasped her to 1 his bosom; their lips were joined, their two souls, like 'two dew-drops, rushed into one, ?for the first time, and 20 ' for the last ' Thus was Teufelsdrockh made immortal by a kiss. And then? Why, then?'thick curtains of ' Night rushed over his soul, as rose the immeasurable ' Crash of Doom; and through the ruins as of a shivered ' Universe was he falling, falling, towards the Abyss.' CHAPTER VI. 9 SORROWS OF TEUFELSDROCKH. 25 We have long felt that, with a man like our Professor, . matters must often be expected to take a course of their own; that in so multiplex, intricate a nature, there mightbe channels, both for admitting and emitting, such as the Psychologist had seldom noted; in short, that on no grand occasion and convulsion, neither in the joy-storm nor in the woe-storm, could you predict his demeanour. To our ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217868914 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217868916 |
| Weight | 0.58 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.40 In |
| List Price | $11.16 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 172 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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